Tokugawa Ieyasu has developed the small coastal…

Tokugawa Ieyasu has developed the small coastal town of Hamamatsu into the commercial and strategic center of a thriving domain.

Relying heavily on his alliance with the now-mighty Nobunaga, Ieyasu has survived the vicissitudes of endemic war and slowly extended his territory until, by the early 1580s, he has become an important daimyo (feudal baron), in control of the fertile and populous area stretching from Okazaki eastward to the mountain barrier at Hakone.